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't. ;:\ , t{f:;,: y,/, 1 <:;:, "' r' , Wt]#!/:< ; ..... w,.-=::;...;.............."$I$..w.JSæ..". X-' ..." MADE IN ENGLAND BY MORNY Wholesale Distributors for u. s. A. MORNY SALES CO., 385 Fifth Ave., N. Y. .; numerous housewives, two waiters, two night-club chefs, and a chef who is as- sistant to Oscar of the \Valdorf. They attend the meetings devoutly, usually bringing along a bird or two. The most exciting event of their year is the show, which settles a lot of arguments. "We have the finest judges on earth," said Mr. Fleischman. "Each is a genius in his line." The Association's show this year was open to anyone who wanted to enter a bird. The en try fee was twenty-five cents for asso- ciation members and forty cents for outsiders. Birds of the parrot family were excluded, on account of the unfortunate disease, psittacosis, to which they are peculiarly susceptible. "We didn't want any Ty- phoid Marys around here," said Mr. Fleischman. A young lady came up and handed Mr. Fleisch- man a copy of the Sun. "Look at what the man wrote," she said. The Sun) s bird editor, in a column-long story, had said of the show, "It is the only show of its kind in the East." Mr. Fleischman flicked a feather from his sleeve and said, "Perfectly true. We'll adopt that as a slogan for future shows." I asked him what it was that made the Bird Fanciers show unique, and he replied, "\Ve judge both canaries an d wild tropical birds. The other clubs, they just fool around with canaries." There are eight cage- bird clubs in the New York area, I learnðd. When anyone of them pre- pares for a show, prize lists are sent to the members of the other clubs, so that everybody will have a chance to com- pete. "We've got eight hundred and thirty-one birds and a hundred exhibi- tors here-a new record," Mr. Fleisch- man told me. I said I thought I would have a look at them, and walked toward the Empire Room, where, I understood, only canaries were being shown. m J UST as I was about to enter, a green- and-yellow bird sailed past me into the foyer, there was a shrill feminine yelp, and a middle-aged woman came sprin ting along with a cage in her hand. The bird circled the foyer a couple of times, the woman trying to grab it, and then darted in to a small office. The woman cried "Ah-ha!" and closed in. She came out presently, carrying the captured bird. I joined the canaries. The Empire Room, large and rectangular, was well packed with people and birds. Running the length of the room were six long tables, each covered with conven- JANUARY 18, 19+ 1 tiona] wire bird cages, all of them pain t- ed black. Some two hundred fanciers and visitors were strolling up and down the aisles between the tables, peering in- to the cages and exchanging comments. At one end of the room was a particular- ly high table, on which were two rows of wooden boxes that looked like minia- ture medicine cabinets. I learned from a man standing nearby that these housed the temperamental roller canaries, which are able to sing a medley of songs called a "tour" but exercise their gift only when they have nothing hetter to do. "It heJps," said the man, "if they don't see any light until the time comes for the judging. Then they're liable to sing like anything." The oth- er birds were setting up a diversified din, filling the room with trills and trem- olos. There was consid- erable birdseed scattered around on the tables and floor, and in one corner was a small table holding glasses and pitch- ers of water. "Those for the birds?" I asked a woman. She said no, they were for the fanciers. "They get nervous while the judging's going on." It was then going on at the judges' table, where the candidates were carried by their own- ers. Three long-faced men stood gaz- ing at a bird in a cage. A bright spotlight was focussed on the cage. The bird, rocking gently on its perch, blinked in the light and looked uneasy. The man in the middle, someone told me, was the head judge. The other two were listen- ing carefully for his comments; when he made one, which was rare, they wrote it down in notebooks. About thirty people were sitting in chairs nearby, watching silently. Now and then, when a noisy con versation started in another part of the room, one of them would emit an angry "Sh-h-h!" Whenever this hap- pened, the head judge would look an- noyed. Finally he said "Hmm," his aides made a note in their books, and he bent down and stuck his hand in the cage and felt of the bird's wings. He chucked it under the bill and put his head down close to the cage. Then he straightened up and said something quietly to the two other judges. One of them picked up a red ribbon and tied it to the cage. The bird had won second place jn its class. "What kind is it?" I asked a specta- tor. " I ' I " h . d A l . t sam u e, e sal . m u e IS the offspring, I found out later, of a male wild bird and a female canary. The